On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:43:37 GMT, Anonymous Joe wrote:

There's no reason why they should sound different....afaik there's only 1
possible sound the MP3 bits can make if arranged in that order, so as to
create your favorite tunes (ie, encoders can vary quality, but decoding
should remain dependent upon the initial quality set by the encoder).

I think you are mistaken. Some decoders are better than others if for
no other reason than that some decoders are not programmed correctly.

Isaac